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iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Sales Top Thirteen Million in Launch Weekend
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And Samsung that sells in even more countries than Apple with their cheap phones is not? Yet they can't beat the genius of Apple by selling their iPhones in phases year by year, country by country, instead of throwing everything all at once.
By keep saying 3D Touch as "rebranded shortcut" really shows how clueless you are. One step is always better than two steps if technology permits, why not, why all of these "laziness" sentiment against technology? Might as well people still riding on horse rather than car, but that taking it to extreme. If you are saying people need time management issues resolved, I think you need reality issues resolved, mister. I will be the first to welcome you to 2016.
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But why should I take the extra steps if I don't need to? Just because things have always been done a certain way (i.e. opening an app, doing what you need to , then closing it) why should I continue to do that if there is a more efficient way? There's also more to 3D Touch than just being used for shortcuts, but you're not interested in that. You sound like you're a 90 year old who's scared of these new fangled gadgets and learning new things.
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Amen to that. And if you think that's bad, just check out the iPad names. A complete clusterfck. Surprising that Apple marketing couldn't come up with something better than that.
Having purchased an Apple Watch and used the 'Force Touch' which is the predecessor to '3D Touch' on the iPhones I can say you don't know what you're talking about, and would guess you haven't used either Force Touch or 3D Touch. Not that I'd expect you to change your mind if you did try them. You seem to be the kind who is incapable of publicly changing their mind after publicly expressing an opinion.
You seem to be confusing convenience and lazy. Perhaps a dictionary would help.
I'm happily retired and have all the time in the world. I'll still buy a 6s and use 3D Touch.
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1% of that 13 million was probably used the following:
- Youtube unboxings
- Drop Tests
- Submerging Test.
- Any other ridiculous test.
But, but Samsung still has higher marketshare, which means Apple is still doomed. *sarcasm*
The 13M is even made more impressive considering the 6S price is significantly higher outside the U.S. A 64GB 6S is like 40% more expensive than a 64GB S6 here in Singapore, Samsung can't be making anywhere near Apple margins on those things much less their lower end garbage.
The 13M is even made more impressive considering the 6S price is significantly higher outside the U.S. A 64GB 6S is like 40% more expensive than a 64GB S6 here in Singapore, Samsung can't be making anywhere near Apple margins on those things much less their lower end garbage.
Why do you need question marks? It is making people lazy when all the punctuation marks are provided correctly in a sentence.How difficult is it for you to understand where the question marks should be? Just lazy lazy lazy...
They should get rid of this gimmick they invented called 'punctuation marks', it is really making people lazy...
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I thought that was Samsung's trick - - doesn't Apple quote the number of devices actually sold?
http://bgr.com/2014/04/11/2014-apple-vs-samsung-lawsuit-galaxy-tab/
Dirty Scumsung loves using this smokescreen tactic to fool the media, claiming 2M tablets as shipped in 2011 when they knew they only sold 1M.
Recently they have become much more quiet with their shipment figures, my educated guess is their volumes are dropping so much to the point that using the same counting trick will already be an embarrassment, much less actual units sold to consumers.
I won't be remotely surprised if the iPhone 6S managed to outsell all S6 sold till date in just 3 days of release when counted in actual sales units.
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It has nothing to do with mental challenge. It has everything to do with working more efficiently.
Sure, I can navigate to my home screen, open an app, wait for it to open, zoom in to the info I want, and back out of the app. That doesn't incur a whole lot of effort, but it does waste time. A peek and pop is a lot quicker and gets me to the information I need right away.
Computers are supposed to be all about getting us the information we need more quickly, remember?
Or, maybe we should just go back to hardware-based input buttons and make our phones run in text mode off the UNIX command line. Because is it really that much of a mental challenge to type in the command to run mail and navigate with arrow keys instead of swiping with our fingers? And why use anything other than vi to compose messages?
Are you really trying to downplay Apple even on a news like this ?
13 million and in a very limited number of markets
The RAM has nothing to do with speed...
Lol, because the iPhone 6 was such a sales fiasco, right ?
I'm really enjoying this thread. Someone is trying hard to downplay Apple on thread where it's not possible
Same here in Europe
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1246 USD here in Italy, and our wages aren't as high as yours
You've done it!
Thank you for the enlightenment.
Now I will go enjoy my 3D touch. Or not, no one is forcing me to use the stupid thing that all these "lazy people" did not ask Apple to invent. Think about that: No one was demanding this, people just seem to enjoy it, simple as that!)My reply was deleted (I am posting too many pictures)
It was just this:
"I said Good day, Sir!" (with a meme of Willy Wonka saying the same thing)
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We can safely conclude from these results that the iPhone is not dead yet.
The skepticism surrounding these results appears to be partly due to the fact that iPhone units are readily available in stores. Evidently, there's nothing Apple can do to satisfy some people. If we hear news about sellouts and limited supply, Apple is accused of artificially limiting supply in order to give the illusion of demand. If Apple sells 13 million but stock is readily available, Apple must be pulling some gimmicks.
The skepticism surrounding these results appears to be partly due to the fact that iPhone units are readily available in stores. Evidently, there's nothing Apple can do to satisfy some people. If we hear news about sellouts and limited supply, Apple is accused of artificially limiting supply in order to give the illusion of demand. If Apple sells 13 million but stock is readily available, Apple must be pulling some gimmicks.
This is why I agree he should be banned. Why do people not see a troll (with a 6 Plus, btw. Larger screen for "sms"?) when he is making it very clear?
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Yes, maybe they could have.... Nevertheless I'm still happy with my 1 Gb iPhone 6
Now you really demonstrated the reason of your presence here...
An iPhone for sms..
agree
I love that he still calls it "sms" and did not mention eMail.
Edit: On second thought, I do not want him banned. That post of his has made me so happy. I don't mind everything he said about 3D touch now. What a lovely day!
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Sorry to butt-in, but mate take my word for it, either the poster 'ArmCortexA8' is incredibly 'dense' or he is simply 'winding' you up... Whatever he/she is, it's simply going to increase his post numbers without gaining much or adding to the conversation....
Time to move on.... and sorry once again for "butting in" to your conversation.....
No problem at all.
I thought he was a troll at first (kept repeating the same things about 3D touch) but his comment about the purpose of an iPhone (phone calls, "sms", and photos. That is it!) was hilarious.
The conversation is over but I am now a huge fan of this guy! I don't really know what is up with him, but I love it!
